Slate has now published three sets of excerpts from Karen’s father (John Mueller, Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University)’s new book, Terror, Security, and Money: Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security. Oxford University Press plans to release the book on October 7th, but Amazon started selling and shipping it yesterday.
Slate
September 7: “Does the United States Spend Too Much on Homeland Security?”: The government refuses to subject homeland security to a cost-benefit analysis.
September 8: “Probability Neglect”: Why the government massively overestimates the risks of terrorism.
September 9: “1,667 Times Square-Style Attacks Every Year”: That’s how many terrorism plots we would have to foil to justify our current spending on homeland security.
Bibliography
I’ve published a comprehensive list of John’s books from 2004 through present (six of them!), complete with descriptions, blurbs, book covers, and everything. I’ll extend it back to the Dawn of Time soon.
Also, here’s a link to my September 8th post, “John Mueller in Slate, NYT, Aljazeera”.
